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Pottery:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in polychrome with a Chinese man seated in a garden beside a fence, and flowers with birds flying overhead
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted in pale blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. Circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. (Archer's Shape E) The front is decorated with a man in a garden. He is seated facing to left beside a fence with flowering plants on either side and in the foreground. Three groups of schematic birds fly overhead.
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January); Lady Batchelor, died 2014
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Diameter: 33.2 cm
Height: 5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
This is an unusual design. A similar dish is in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (see Documentation)
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.52-2015
Primary reference Number: 201801
Old object number: 27
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.52-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/201801 Accessed: 2024-11-08 10:34:57
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